Basically we installed a screenrecorder on a new laptop and installed everything from scratch. You see the download and installation of Eclipse, Java, the setup of the Git gepositories, installation of the Maven tools, etc. etc. There is also an explanation of how to run BIMserver with the bimvie.ws and IfcOpenShell plugin.

Another video shows the start of a new internal plugin. You see the creation of a new plugin using the ‘DemoPlugins’ repository. Giving it a version number is also shown to get it working in the Maven context.

The last video is ‘an hour in the life of a BIMserver programmer’. This is the first hour of actual coding, experimenting and testing the newly created plugin. In this case the developer tried to create a plugin that calculates the outer area. The example shows the use of the preprocessed geometry from IfcOpenShell in combination with the semantics of IFC. As you can see it only takes a few hours to get a first prototype up and running. It will take some additional hours to fine tune it to perfection. The code is available on github for you to see it progress.